[Lazarus] How to cleanly terminate "http server application"/"fastcgi application"?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, Luca Olivetti wrote:

> I couldn't find a built-in way to cleanly terminate them, so I had to
> install a signal handler to issue an Application.Terminate.
> Is there a provided way that I missed?

No. Calling Terminate is what needs to be called. 
How/when this needs to be called is up to you.

Installing a signal handler is one way (a good one). 
I sometimes install a password protected URL handler that calls terminate.

> BTW, also, they don't daemonize under Linux/run as service under
> windows. Maybe they aren't supposed to?

They are not supposed to. 
That kind of thing is a design decision only you can make.

This is the reason why web components have the TWebHandler and TApplication classes split:
the webhandler does the work, the TApplication part determines what kind of application it is.
I have executables that can run as a service or as a normal binary.

Michael.